WATER-WORKES. 



cleare your ground of cold water ; and 

 keepe it as dry, as a child under the hands 

 of a dainty Nurce ; that the continuance 

 of cold water in the body of your ground 

 in the spring, breed neither Rush, Boult, 

 nor Spierygrasse : but grasse much more 

 profitable, thick, long, and fine ; voyde 

 of all Mosse, Hard-heads, Cow-slips, or any 

 weede what-so-ever. 



Observe respectively your soyle, whether 

 c lay, or sand : for, sandy-grounds will en- 

 dure tenne times more water (being natu - 

 rally hotte) then the cold clay: yet some 

 washers of grounds, (in their owne con- 

 ceits) will imagine it's behoovefull to 

 turne the water at all times on their 

 lands ; or as long as they (in their dis- 

 cretion) thinke good. But so may (with 

 indiscretion) surfeit a clay ground with a 

 drunken-dropsie, as all the Phisitions in 

 the neighbourhood, with all their visitations, 

 will hardly heale in two yeares space. 

 Having sufficiently sped your clay-ground 

 in the drowning-time, (I meane Winter] you 

 may (by negligence, or ignorance) suffer 

 colde water, in the heate of Summer, 

 to coole your ground so much, that the 

 vitall spirits will bee decayed : and that 

 97 moisture 



In the be- 

 ginning of 

 March cleere 

 your grounds 

 from cold 

 cleare- water. 



The best 

 husbands or 

 husband- 

 men. 



